A recent study by Employment and Social Development Canada found there are at least 2,250 homeless veterans in the country, but the department cautions the data is far from complete.

The figures come from a database which tracks 60 emergency shelters across the country.

Hehr says he’s had talks with other ministers about the government’s planned increase in social housing and how that might affect veterans, but he cautioned it is too early to say what the Liberals might do.